Author Archives: Andrew Allison

Dylan voted NZ contracting’s emerging leader

19 August 2024: Wellington Contracting Divisional Manager, Dylan Fraser, has won New Zealand’s premiere contracting industry award for people under the age of 30. At Friday night’s (16 August) CCNZ National Awards at ILT Stadium Southland, Dylan was crowned the Z Emerging Leader, in recognition of his outstanding leadership skills and character. In just six […]

Forging a path for wāhine in our industry

8 August 2024: When Hinearoha McAllister left school in 2017 she knew one thing for sure; she wanted nothing more of formal education. Six years later she is New Zealand’s outstanding female student in the construction sector, winning the 2024 National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Student Excellence Award. Next year Hinearoha graduates as […]

New BoP headquarters reflects region’s growth

7 August 2024: In a region whose population is 50 percent Māori, there is no mistaking the commitment Te Ao Māori in the new Bay of Plenty offices in Tauranga. On arrival you are greeted by a two-storey high Noho ora Tohu etching, the ground floor reflects the area’s whenua (land) and moana (ocean) and […]

SH25A project receives international recognition

24 July 2024: After featuring strongly in New Zealand industry awards, the SH25A Taparahi Slip remediation project in the Coromandel has gone a step further. It has been adjudged Bridge Project Team of the Year at the New Civil Engineer Conference Awards in London. Entered by Beca on behalf of the SH25A team – the […]

Stars shine brightly at 2024 NAWIC Awards

23 July 2024: Take a bow, our wonderful wāhine, for your successes at Friday night’s (19 July) National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Awards. We are proud of all our nominees and finalists, and particularly of the five who went on to win their categories or receive special citations at the gala dinner at […]

Ready for take-off!

15 July 2024: Dylan Fraser has achieved a rare double at the 2024 CCNZ National Awards. A finalist in the Z Emerging Leader Award category, Dylan has also overseen Fulton Hogan’s Chatham Islands maintenance contract which, with Stantec, is a finalist in the Asset Maintenance and Management category. He’s shown here demonstrating how to deal […]

Showing life is a life-long learning opportunity

9 July 2024: It’s quite something to be in the running for the National Personal Improvement Award at the upcoming CCNZ National Conference. It’s something else, again, to achieve this at an age when many people are more interested in improving their golf. But Infrastructure Skills Centre Programme Manager, John Catt, is no ordinary person. […]

Brynderwyns back in business

27 June 2024: Big raps to NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, the Fulton Hogan team and our many subcontractors for completing the 2km rebuild of the Brynderwyns on SH1 in Northland in time for Matariki Weekend. The Brynderwyns remediation was done under a four-month road closure (with a brief re-opening for Easter). A total of […]

Electric loader fuel cost saving up to 78.7%

25 June 2024: The second round of data and feedback from Fulton Hogan and TDX’s trial of a fully electric 20-tonne Volvo JL120 at the Reliable Way Asphalt Recycling Plant reveals financial savings for the energy consumed of between 64.5% and 78.7%. Since December 2023, the team at the plant has been working with Volvo […]

Luke grabs life in both hands

24 June 2024: As a family company, we like to recognise our team members’ wider whānau. People like Luke Hickling. Nine months ago, Luke broke his neck in a cycling accident; in late June he was on a plane to Canada with New Zealand’s Under 19 rowing team. Son of Bryan (Canterbury Bitumen Divisional Manager) […]